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December 10, 2005
The Quanity Theory of Insanity
Casting about for lighter reading as I trundle through The Daily Drucker, a collection of excerpts from writings of the late management guru Peter F. Drucker, I went back to Borges (of course), then to briefly to Lewis Caroll, and came around again to Will Self's short story, The Quanity Theory of Insanity.
This fictional autobiographical account of how Harold Ford painstakingly lumbered towards the Quantity Theory, and how he then recoiled from its shameless exploitation by what he clearly sees as lesser and more compromising intellects. Besides the clinical brillance with which Self demolishes the protagonist in his very own words, the story fits quite well with each of the five others in the book, meanwhile poking great fun at researchers everywhere. Next time you see this in the public library, sit down for an hour and enjoy yourself.
Posted by Mark at December 10, 2005 07:04 AM
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